Month: May 2023

Ven Elizabeth Adekunle, Archdeacon of Hackney

Voters will require voter ID at tomorrow’s elections. Accepted forms of voter ID are restricted to those who are sufficiently old and vote for the correct party, thus making elections fairer and more open.

The Big Book of Magic Stuff is very clear that we should use our right to vote in order to be good citizens and promote a healthy democracy. Mother Theresa, in her treatise “Popular Representation and Democratic Accountability of the Political Class” agrees.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GXcII2KtTNLdYDzpL0iOq_PISCDR2F2H/view?usp=sharing

Rev Dr Sam Wells, Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields

The pledge of allegiance is causing some controversy. Will we pledge to be obedient vassals of Charles Windsor? To give undying, undivided loyalty to a hereditary, undoubted monarch? Unless you pledge allegiance to sensible things, like equality, democracy and justice, it involves taking a leap of faith. As the Invisible Magic Friend’s appointed representative on earth, King Charles deserves our allegiance.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R3jh99Q6qN89IYoxU_ozAK6GPfHDmqsp/view?usp=sharing

A Giant Raspberry to His Majesty

As part of our new, diversity aware, subject participation, coronation ceremony, His Majesty’s subjects will be invited to swear an oath of allegiance.

“I swear that I will pay true allegiance to your majesty, and to your heirs and successors according to law. So help me God”

Serious, respectable organisations, like Republic, or the National Secular Society, would never suggest anything as childish as I’m about to suggest. However, as I’m neither serious nor respectable, I would like to propose a giant raspberry blow during the oath of allegiance. Just imagine it, millions of people, in streets and pubs up and down the breadth of the land, all blowing a giant raspberry in unison.

Unfortunately, I don’t have the social media presence to push the idea. But you never know. someone reading this just might. I can dream.